About Us
Welcome to Elite Performance Academy
Your Premier Dance Family for Over 20 Years!
For the past 20 years, Elite Performance Academy has proudly trained dancers from the Tri-State area and beyond! We offer a diverse range of classes, including Jazz, Acro-Tumble, Lyrical/Contemporary, Ballet, Pointe, Hip-Hop, Tap, Musical Theatre, Voice, Creative Movement, and Combination, welcoming boys and girls ages three through adult. To further promote growth and skill development, we also provide regular master classes in various dance styles.
Our team of instructors is highly trained and experienced, collectively bringing over 100 years of lifetime training to our students. Many of our instructors have been lifelong dancers, continuously pursuing their own education to share valuable knowledge with their students. (Check out our dedicated staff on our staff page!) Here, students become family, and we take pride in watching them grow and forge lifelong friendships within our studio community.
At Elite, we instill not only a love for dance and performance but also the values of being role models in their communities through motivation, positivity, perseverance, responsibility, and a commitment to being the best versions of themselves. Our strong studio atmosphere is fostered through fun activities such as holiday parties, birthday celebrations, and our mentoring program, which pairs younger dancers with experienced members as mentors. We also encourage our students to assist in younger classes, enhancing their leadership skills.
We are honored to have been voted the Best Dance Studio in the Tri-State and recognized both regionally and nationally! Our dancers have performed up and down the East Coast and even for the Royal Caribbean Cruise Line. In competitions, our students are celebrated for their sportsmanship, teamwork, and positive attitudes, and we couldn’t be prouder of their achievements!
Elite Performance Academy is conveniently located at 819 10th Avenue in Huntington, West Virginia, just steps away from the YMCA, Ritter Park, and Grindstone Coffeeology. Our facility features three dedicated studio spaces and a dressing room for our dancers.
Come see us! We would love to welcome you into our dance family!
The Benefits of Dance are Limitless
Self Confidence
The opportunity to perform on stage in front of an audience boosts the self-confidence of the child and develops in them a sense of self-awareness and accomplishment that can never be taken away.
Physical Coordination
The demands of learning to physically move hands, arms, legs, etc., in coordination is wonderfully challenging. Learning to synchronize these movements with a number of other students builds an amazing sense of comradeship and pride not just in oneself, but in one’s classmates.
Musicality
A basic understanding of the moods and rhythms of music are developed in learning to dance. This understanding of one of man’s oldest artistic pursuits enables the student to better appreciate the world in which we live, and can lead to the development of a much healthier outlook on life.
Health
A student’s physical and mental fitness is enhanced by the regular exercise and love of movement with dance gives them. Whether it can be classical moves in ballet, the more contemporary steps of jazz and hip hop of the strenuous activities of acrobatic classes, dance builds a strength of body and character which will be with the student forever.